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J. H. GLASHAN. CLOTHES LINE PASTENER.

Patented Oct. 13, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JOHN H. GLASHAN, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTH ES-LINE FASTENER.

$PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,023, dated October13, 1885.

Application filed December 12, 1884. Serial No. 150,155.

1' 0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. GLASHAN, of New York city, in the State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inLine-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

I have experimented with the device in holding together the endsofclothes-lines arranged to run from a pulley on a window-sill to andaround a pulley on a mast in the rear of the building. I will describethe invention as so applied.

It is a light and simple device which can be easily liberated when thewetting of the line has shortened it so as to induce a degree of tensionwhich would make it difficult to untie a knot.

I provide a lever operating on the principle of a jam-bucklepressingagainst a grooved pulley, which saves the line from abrasion,and the lever has an eye to which one end of the line is permanentlyattached, and an arm or extension to allow of easy operating. Theangular arrangement of the centers makes the tension on the line aid inbringing the jam-buckle into action. The lever makes it easy to open it.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification, andrepresent what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

Figure 1 is an elevation on a small scale, showing the manner of itsemployment in joining the ends of a line rope through two pulleys. Theremaining figures are on a larger scale, and show the novel parts withso much of the ordinary parts as is necessary to indicate theirrelations thereto. Fig. 2 is an elevation with the holder closed and theline hauled taut. Fig. 3 is an elevation with the holder opened. Fig. 4is a plan View from below of the holder alone. It is in the closedcondition corresponding to Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

M is the rope, which, it will be understood, is extended through pulleysN O. The ends only are shown in the figures.

A is a grooved sheave turning on a pin, 13, held by two cheeks, G O. Apin, D, connects these checks with a lever, E, certain por- (No model.)

tions of which will be designated by additional marks, as E E The mainarm E carries an eye, 6, to which one end of the rope is fastened. Theother end of the rope is passed over the sheave A. An arm, E standing atan angle with the arm E, is properly formed to act as a jam-buckle,nipping the rope between itself and the sheave A. The other arm, E, isextended beyond the eye 6, and properly formed to serve as a handle. 7

When the device is under strain holding the rope, the handle lies nearlyparallel to the rope M. Pulling on that part of the rope which haspassed the sheave tightens it. A slight force applied to lift the handlerelaxes the pressure of the part E against the rope and lets the sheaveA turn to slacken the rope.

The arrangement of the arms E and -E at the angle shown causes a tensionof the rope to press the arm E against the rope and hold it by thepressure against the sheave A. The extension of the lever E beyond theeye, 0, forming a handle, performs an important function in facilitatingthe liberation of the rope. The rope may be liberated altogether, oronly slackened a little, as circumstances shall render expedient.

The device may be of malleable cast-iron finished by japanning.

M is a knot tied in the rope at a little distance beyond the end of thelever E, and which, by striking the pulley O, saves the lever from beingbrought in contact therewith, and the holder being thereby accidentallyopened.

A knot should be tied in the opposite end of the rope after it has beenrove through the space between the cheeks G. This serves to prevent therope from being entirely set free by any too great opening of theholder.

I am aware of Patent N 0. 314,065, of 1885, in which a crank-formedframe was held by tension in a position to throw a tongue upon the otherpart against the line. This construction is not sought to be covered inthis application.

What Iclaim as new is-- The checks 0 0, having pins B D, the formerserving for a pivot-bearing for a sheave, A, and the latter as a pivotfor a lemy hand, at New York city, New York, this ver, E, the said leverE formed with arm E, 4th day of December, 1884 in the presence havingeye 6, and with an arm, E at an angle of two subscribing Witnesses.

and having a roughened bearing, as shown, JOHN H. GLASHAN. all combined,arranged, and serving as here Witnesses:

in set forth. CHARLES R. SEARLE,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set M. F. BOYLE.

